Honest opinion needed about my wife's singing...

[Jwink25]

I believe my wife told me she has about a 4 octave range. Where as, most people have maybe 2, I think. She can also go into whistle range. But has not practiced that high in a little while. She used to do scales and vocal exercises daily.

 

She has not practiced like this in a while. She has been working full time and is going back to school to get a degree. But, she is going to start working on her vocals again...we will try and put together an 8-10 song CD with newer songs from verying artists. This will better explore her abilities and help us find her style. I figure we might be able to pay for a few hours in the studio and maybe try to get 2 to 3 of those songs professionally edited on top of that. Then see what people think.

 

We thank you for your inputs,

Jason and Crystal

[Gollum]

boodleproof said pretty much all I'd planned to say. So I'll just say this:

 

Look and attitude are much MORE important in many ways than talent. She has talent, I'd suggest a really good vocal trainer to make her skilled.

 

Singing is like playing guitar in the fact that initial skill doesn't determine how good you can become, it just changes how much they have to work in order to become reconised.

 

Steve vai, one of the worlds best guitar players, admits to having almost zero talent, and worked extremely hard to become as good as his is (and I believe him, to an extent). Then there's freaks of nature that become extremely talented overnight. With vocalists they tend to not put in the same type of work schedule just to become better, they treat their voice as "this is what God gave me, and I'm stuck with it" when that's not the case at all.

 

She's got talent, get her professional help and she can become skilled and talented, the best of both worlds.

 

After that, it's like I said before... Image, look, etc. Those are the things that can make or break an artist. There are well know vocalists that are KNOWN for their voice that won't go on stage without autotunes (pitch correcting devices).

 

 

Oh yea, with all that said, though that was a rough track, the engineer definately knew what he was doing with the compression, reverb, and mic choices.